The Portfolio Management shows how I trade the stocks that are scanned on a daily basis. My strategy is to buy or short deep into the buy/short zone. This allows me to keep tighter stop losses, but it also leads to fewer trades being executed.

I send by email all the trades that I execute when I execute them.

Portfolio Management Trade Statistics

My objective is to hold five positions in the Portfolio, but on average, I hold only three to four positions. I have an investment ratio on the Portfolio between 40% and 75% (On a 60 days average basis).

Trades are held on average for 4.1 days. Each trade has a profit expectancy of 2.63% and a loss expectancy of -1.54%. This gives a positive expected return of 0.67% per trade. Between September 9 2013 and May 31, 2016, the Portfolio had a non-compounded gain of 76.04%. We then can calculate a Portfolio annual non-compounded expected return of 28%.

We can see below that the Portfolio produced twice the return of the S&P 500 with a much lower drawdown.

Below are the Monthly statistics as well as the Rolling Quarterly gains.
The last columns represents the rolling Quarterly gains on an investment of $100,000. This is to be compared to the cost of the service of $99/Quarter. On average, the Portfolio has gained 6.25% on each rolling quarter.

I have a few observations on the Portfolio - SP500 correlation Figure shown below:

1. The trend line is always above 0. This means that the investment strategy has a positive profit expectation even when the S&P500 pulls-back.
2. The trend line is going upward. This means that the stronger the market, the higher our profit expectation. This also means that our strategy trades WITH the market.
3. By pointing the most recent Month (in Red,) we can see whether we are operating above or below the trend line. You can also see whether the Month is profitable (above the horizontal red line) or not.

Finally, the most important measure is the evolution of the Risk/Reward ratio. A R/R ratio lower than one indicates that the strategy is losing money.

"No Gain - No Pay" policy

This policy is important to us. It means that if you buy our stock selection service at any time and if the next rolling three Months after youAttachment 33358 purchase the service, the Portfolio loses money, you will receive a free access to the stock selection service until the Portfolio is back into generating profits.

Our "No Gain - No Pay policy" wants to protect you against "bad luck", where you would join the service just at the time when returns would start to be negative.

Below is the portfolio return evolution since early September 2013, compared to the S&P500.

I sometimes receive emails from non-subscribers who tell me that it is impossible to beat the leveraged ETF that followed an index. For example: TNA is impossible to beat in the long-term.
Indeed, we can see below that TNA has outperformed the Portfolio for some periods since September 2013. Why go through such a tedious work of trading individual stocks when trading TNA would make you rich without effort?

You already know the answer to this question: it is called risk of drawdown.
You can see below that since September 2013, the Portfolio had a Max drawdown of about 4%.

The drawdowns on TNA are however much larger. Can you manage a 60% drawdown? Usually, a trader would sell much before. Maybe at 15%. In such a case, how do you re-enter the TNA position?

I have also added below two Figures that show the profits and losses on all the trades that were executed for the past two years, separating long and short trades.

A few notes:

1. There are slightly more blue than pink dots. This means that the stock selection process has a slight positive profit expectation (the win/loss ratio is 53.9%)
2. There are more long than short trades (because during that period, the market was more bullish than bearish)
3. The average gain is higher than the average loss. This is more evident for long than for short trades. (also due to the market's bullish aspect)
4. The most important element of this strategy is that there are comparatively many more large winners than large losers. You only need to see the number of traders than gained more than 5% compared to the number of trades that lost more than 5% (This is because I prefer to exit a losing trade early before losses can grow)

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General overview

The difference between the Portfolio Management and the Trade ideas

The Dividend Portfolio

The short-term stock selection focuses on the following five trading days and hence optimizes the reward/risk ratio for this specific time frame. This method is more suited to short-term investors who are very active in the markets.

The Trade Ideas section is updated daily. It includes a list of Buy and a list of Short ideas.

We follow eight types of trades:

In order to trade in the price direction, email alerts are issued as follows:

- For Breakouts or Breakdowns, alerts are displayed when the price breaks through the threshold
- For Long trades on Pullbacks, a pre-alert is issued when the price crosses 0.1% below the threshold price and a confirmed alert is issued when the price consecutively crosses above the threshold price.
- For Short trades on Bounces, a pre-alert is issued when the price crosses 0.1% above the threshold price and a confirmed alert is issued when the price consecutively crosses below the threshold price.

Some details on alerts

- In order to avoid whipsawing signals, there must be at least ten minutes of time lag between a pre-alert and an alert.
- Trade ideas for which a pre-alert has been issued are colored in light Yellow.
- Trade ideas for which a confirmed alert has been issued are colored in Green.
- The Red/Green arrows shown at the right side of the Tables indicate the price direction since the day's open.
- In order to receive email alerts, subscribers need to set their communication options (See the My Profile -About me) section.